Comments on: More creative writing http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2008/02/11/more-creative-writing/ Life on other planets is difficult Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Lyle http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2008/02/11/more-creative-writing/#comment-3881 Lyle Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:16:54 +0000 http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2008/02/11/more-creative-writing/#comment-3881 <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp" rel="nofollow">This might help</a>. I'm "lucky" in that I worked for eighteen months in a printing company, doing markup for all kinds of esoteric academic documents to go online (And managed to print an entire online version of the "Dyslexia" academic journal as "Lysdexia", which none of the other people in the company noticed 'til the complaints started coming in) so it meant that I learned pretty much all the entities by heart, and still do. The only ones that still get me are when you end up going into &# codes, which are a pig and make no sense to no fucker. This might help.

I’m “lucky” in that I worked for eighteen months in a printing company, doing markup for all kinds of esoteric academic documents to go online (And managed to print an entire online version of the “Dyslexia” academic journal as “Lysdexia”, which none of the other people in the company noticed ’til the complaints started coming in) so it meant that I learned pretty much all the entities by heart, and still do.

The only ones that still get me are when you end up going into &# codes, which are a pig and make no sense to no fucker.

]]> By: Tom http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2008/02/11/more-creative-writing/#comment-3873 Tom Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:34:32 +0000 http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2008/02/11/more-creative-writing/#comment-3873 I always get it wrong and I never check. Thanks for the tip. One day I'll actually be arsed to check out all the special characters and learn what they are. Then add it to my CV. I always get it wrong and I never check. Thanks for the tip. One day I’ll actually be arsed to check out all the special characters and learn what they are.

Then add it to my CV.

]]> By: Lyle http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2008/02/11/more-creative-writing/#comment-3866 Lyle Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:56:02 +0000 http://www.dragonsmind.co.uk/2008/02/11/more-creative-writing/#comment-3866 Just as an aside, for your little 1, you may want to use ¹ ( &sup1; ) instead, which is generally nicer. :) Just as an aside, for your little 1, you may want to use ¹ ( &sup1; ) instead, which is generally nicer. :)

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